US Patent Issued to Joy Global Underground Mining on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for automated control of a beam stageloader bootend" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,483, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Joy Global Underground Mining LLC (Warrendale, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for automated control of a beam stageloader bootend" was invented by Benjamin John Robert Lepre (Worcester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated control of a longwall stageloader bootend using a plurality of sensors. The sensors include lift sensors, side shift sensors, advance sensors, angle sensors, and conveyor belt sensors. Signals from the plurality of sensors are received by a controller and used to control the operation of the bootend. Controlling the operation of the bootend includes controlling,...